Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but
extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the
result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now
extinct. Today, species are disappearing at an ever increasing
rate, whilst past losses have occurred during several great crises.
Issues such as habitat destruction, conservation, climate change,
and, during major crises, volacanism and meteorite impact, can all
contribute towards the demise of a group. In this Very Short
Introduction, Paul B. Wignall looks at the causes and nature of
extinctions, past and present, and the factors that can make a
species vulnerable. Summarising what we know about all of the major
and minor exctinction events, he examines some of the greatest
debates in modern science, such as the relative role of climate and
humans in the death of the Pleistocene megafauna, including
mammoths and giant ground sloths, and the roles that global
warming, ocean acidification, and deforestation are playing in
present-day extinctions ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
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